Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither unions nor management are happy under the present system of handling "essential" industries, where the constant threat of injunctions tends to nullify collective bargaining. Yet when strict adherence to the principles of pure collective bargaining imperils the national health or safety, open fights cannot be allowed...
This week a U.S. lawyer, hired by their relatives, prepared an appeal to the Immigration Service. He pleaded that it was political persecution to send them back to Poland or Rumania, or back to Cuba to starve. However their case was decided, they would get no help from a strict reading of the U.S.'s muddled immigration laws. There was no direct provision in the statutes for Woloski or the Hersjus and thousands like them...
...wedding itself, strict protocol had been laid down. But what was to have been a stately minuet turned into a wild jitterbugging jamboree that will be remembered in Rome for years...
...stern, strict, and snobbish-a cold facsimile of an English public school. Boys were belted for the most minor offenses; some tried to run away. Sons of the poor, who came on scholarships, were called "rats" by wealthier students. St. Albans School for boys, owned by the Cathedral Foundation (Episcopal) in Washington, D.C., was that sort of place 20 years...
That is the strict interpretation of the phrase. Whether or not it is justified by facts is difficult to say, chiefly because there aren't any that can be used. The lack of conciliatory Russian actions in the UN is supposed to be a useful fact, but it proves very little so far as this particular issue is concerned. It does show that Premier Stalin's statement to the press was not necessarily made in good faith; but it does not show that the statement was necessarily and beyond the shadow of a doubt made in bad faith. It would...